Chaos Destruction Rebirth

I really like when people I don’t know compliment me. And not like “I like your shoes” although that’s nice too but like “You look like a fairy.” When strangers pay you a compliment, I feel like you can be fairly sure they are telling the truth because what reason would they have to lie to you or to go out of their way to falsely praise someone they don’t know. It makes me feel really good about myself. It always makes me really happy because it seems so genuine and when I give a compliment to someone I don’t know it’s because something about them really struck me as unique or beautiful. Today I was walking to work and I had my sunglasses on and my ipod on which always makes me feel bad about myself because I am totally disconnecting myself from the world around me and alienating everyone around me and eliminating and chance of connection with my surroundings. I was walking up the street and a guy was walking down the street, also wearing sunglasses with his ipod on. As we passed each other, I smiled, and just as I was passed him, he said loudly, I assume since he had earbuds in both ears and I was listening to loud music through earbuds in both ears and still heard him, that he liked my clothes. I turned and said thank you but I don’t know if he heard me. It made me really happy.